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Yerkes may refer to: Yerkes (surname), notable people with this surname Yerkes, Kentucky Yerkes, Pennsylvania Yerkes Observatory, an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago Yerkes luminosity classification of stars Yerkes scheme of galaxy morphological classification Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University Yerkes–Dodson law, an empirical relationship between arousal and performance first noted by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson 990 Yerkes, main belt asteroid Yerkes (crater), on the Moon
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